Biography of Late Rev. Gergan Tharchin
- Name
- Fader, H. Louis (Transcriber)
- Title
- Biography of Late Rev. Gergan Tharchin
- Abstract
- Typeset (unpublished?) biography of Gegen Dorje Tharchin, a Christian convert and founding editor of the Tibet Mirror newspaper (Kalimpong, India), emphasizing his religious activity. The first half of the biography covers his relations with Sadhu Sunder [sic] Singh, opening of a school in Gyantse, Tibet, and founding of the Tibet Mirror printing press in the 1920s, and refers to the Thirteenth Dal ai Lama and to Rev. Dr. John Anderson Graham. The second half continues to follow his religious and publishing activity, and details his audiences with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, etc.
- Collection Name
- The Tharchin Collection
- Subjects
- Clergy--India; Christianity--20th century.--India; Christianity--20th century.--Tibet Region; Schools--20th century.--China; Newspaper publishing--20th century.--Tibet Region; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) History 20th century; Tharchin, G., 1890-1976; Singh, Sundar, 1889-1929; Graham, John A. (John Anderson), 1861-1942
- Format
- books
- Genre
- Biography
- Origin Information
- Kālimpong?
- Date
- not before 1975
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes ; 21-28 cm
- Note (Funding)
- Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
- Note
- Title from handwritten cover, on traditional paper and applied to [volume 1] only.
- Author unknown.
- Pages 1-2 of [volume 1] are reproductions.
- Volume 1] is typeset but unpublished with 176 numbered pages, handbound with cotton string,
- Volume 2] is a typed transcription on by Herbert Louis Fader.
- Language
- English
- Contents
- [volume 1]. Chapters 1-16 -- [volume 2]. Chapters 17-27
- Library Location
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13073109
- Also In
- Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-fw02-m447
- Related URLs
- Internet Archive - Vol. 1
- Internet Archive - Vol. 2